Dear Water Working Group Member,
We are pleased to announce the next Water Working Group meeting to be held at 4pm on January 17th, 2013 at the European Chamber Beijing Office.
At this meeting, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has tentatively agreed to present to the Working Group on a research study which focuses on decentralised waste water reuse. This paper discusses the potential application of decentralized wastewater reuse in northern China and formulates the implementation strategy based on the analysis of domestic policy supporting, water reuse standards, available technologies, construction cost and recovery, operation and maintenance, financing, monitoring and so on. Decentralised wastewater reuse seems to be an effective way to reduce the main impediment to greater reuse of reclaimed water where the most important driver for the promotion of decentralised wastewater reuse is the government policy. Several suggestions to the government are proposed based on the key findings from the research, and we invite MEP to discuss the potential implementation of these suggestions.
After the presentation, we will discuss the key priorities and focus for the group in 2013. This discussion will eventually lead to the formation of the Water Working Group lobby strategy and dedicated chapter of the position paper which will be published in September of 2013.
As always, the working group welcomes any suggestions for speakers or topics for upcoming working group meetings.
Agenda:
1) Presentation: Ministry of Environmental Protection: Study on Potential Application and Implementation Strategy of Decentralized Wastewater Reuse in Northern China (TBC)
2) Discussion of key priorities for 2013
3) AOB
If you would like to register for the meeting, please contact Ms. Vivian Xu at vxu@europeanchamber.com.cn